Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21
AN ATHLETIC PRODIGY.
A Tennesseean Who Can Outrun q Horse
in Long Run.

TennoSsecan Who Can Outrun q Horse
in Long Run.
Wesley WEIGH is an athletic prodigy,
says the Nashville american. He has gone
barefooted every summer of his life. His
first shoes he paid for with quails that he
trapped. He never took medicine; was
never sick. His speed and endurance on
foot are wonderful. A noted fox chase Is
recalled in which he caught the fox after q
run OF four hours, when all but two of
twenty-five hounds had held out in the run
of from fifteen TO twenty miles. He refers
TO Mr.. Goodwin and Major Jones, of Mem
phis, who saw him catch the fox. About
twenty men on horseback started in the
chase. He is confident that he can excel in
speed and endurance both hound and horse
in long race. He has made a mile in so,
and ten miles in eighty minutes. His
longest and best walk was from Atlanta
TO Chattanooga in day and night, one
hundred and forty miles. He had two
companions on the start, but left them be-
hind. On hard journey of this kind he
wants no food but sweetened coffee, and
he will refrain from eating the day or so
beforehand. He says we all eat too much.
He prefers wild game and then mutton
and beef to hog meat, and regards chicken
as the worst of meats.
u T..
won't monkey with a hook" In an
emergency he will take sledge-hammer
and pound on the rocks under which they
hide in clear streams and the fish will soon
float from under and on the surface dead.
He illustrated for DR.. Stafford some time
ago the power of dynamite. He went to
very deep hole in the Turnbull, disturbed
tho water so as to have the fish go
down to the deep part and threw in the
dynamite tied to a rock, and says il not
only killed every thing, but split the base
rock in twain. The water is so clear that
the rent rock may be seen easily. His
usual method is to dive after fish, feeling
for them under rocks. The greatest fight
Of his life occurred on such an occasion.
He had dived and was pressing a fine cat,
which got in hole or crevice in the rocks,
when by turn Of his hand he found he
was fastened. The idea Of losing his life
so foolishly mortified him, and he made a
desperate pull, leaving part of the flesh In
the crevice. He determined to pull loose,
even IL he should have TO pull the arm of
II possible. He did another perilous thing
In exploring the Murrell cave. DIR. Vance
and frank Scaff, of Memphis, went in with
him; they all went to where the oil
would not burn In their lamps, and then he
went out, got torch, and went farther in,
he thinks farther than any body else ever
went. He arrived at a lake and could go
no farther. Murrell's name is in the cave.
he had an interesting experiment with
fish in winter. He managed to drive a fine
lot under ice to the end Of slough. He cut
a trench in the ice, dropped plank In, and
then caught them with his hand, throwing
them on the ice. They froze rapidly, some
OF them adhering to the ice. On taking
them home he said he did not like to clean
them frozen, and a friend who was present
suggested that he put them in the spring
and let them thaw. He did put them I'm the
spring, and he was amazed to see them 20
to swimming.